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Post Murder Lizzie Borden House On The Market - Paranormal News
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Article By: Phillip Brunelle
www.HauntedSociety.com
FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS -- After being acquitted for the murder of her parents, Lizzie Borden moved out of the infamous Borden family murder house and purchased a home known as the Maplecroft House in Fall River, MA. Lizzie lived in the Maplecroft from 1894 until her death in 1927, and now more than 100 years later, the house is once again listed on the market.
The Maplecroft is a 3,697 square-foot, 14-room Queen Anne Victorian home, which includes seven bedrooms, four bathrooms, a grand entry foyer, two sunrooms, seven fireplaces, original parquet floors, tin ceilings and mahogany moldings.
Aside from the features of the house, the current homeowner, Robert Dube, has high hopes that the history of the house will justify his asking price. Robert Dube purchased the house in 1980 for $60,000 and today the house has an assessed value of $313,200 however Dube has listed the house for $650,000 which is more than double its assessed value.
HauntedSociety.com requested and reviewed public records in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts which show that Robert Dube has unsuccessfully listed the house on the market several times in the past. The most recent listing was three years ago with an asking price of $725,000.
It's important to note that this house is not the infamous home where the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden took place, this is the house that Lizzie Borden moved into after she was acquitted of the charges, and it's unknown whether or not there are current reports of paranormal activity occurring in this house.
When most people hear the name Lizzie Borden, they reflect back upon the childhood nursery rhyme... "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one".
In reality, Andrew Borden suffered 11 'whacks' and his wife Abby Borden suffered 19. It is believed the song was created by a newspaper vendor, and thereafter children would sing it while skipping rope.
What do you think about the asking price of the house? Do you feel that the history of this house justifies an asking price of double its assessed value, just because Lizzie Borden lived there after the 1892 murders? Share your opinion in the comment section below.
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Comment by Alexis E. McKenna on July 30, 2012 at 3:18pm -
The price this guy is asking is just silly. I don't know why in the world he would want to sell Lizzie's home she loved so much. It should be a museum for everyone to enjoy and not just the "Chosen" few to enjoy.
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Comment by David Taylor on May 15, 2012 at 9:52am
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I think if I owned this house I would close it to the public and just allow hunters in here certain times of the year.
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where are you at in AZ I lived there for over thirty years moved to VA in 2008
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Comment by Sharon Coffin on May 14, 2012 at 5:50pm -
I would love to have that house. Our two sons and their family have moved out here in AZ. to be near our . It not because of any money, because I am taken it with me LOL ! But man that would be big enough for us.I do not think Lizzy would be haunten this house, she is busy haunting her dad hose.
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Yeh, but how cool would it be to own a famous haunted house?????
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Comment by New Bedford Paranormal Society on May 2, 2012 at 12:54pm -
@ Love Paranormal didn't know there was rules of where to post comments and if they are asking about doubling a price because of the murders, then the other murders should be mentioned and since when are you the posting police?
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Comment by Paranormal News on May 1, 2012 at 3:02pm -
Yes, there was a murder/suicide in 1848, before the murders of Andrew & Abby Borden, but it didn't happen in this house, nor did it happen in the house where Lizzie's parents were murdered, the murder/suicide happened in the house next to it.
The murder/suicide involved other relatives in the Borden family... Ladowick Borden (Lizzie's great uncle) owned the house next door to the house where Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered. Ladowick had a wife, Eliza Darling Borden, who attempted to drown her two children in a bathtub and then killed herself. One of the children survived, and the other died.
So, the only murders that took place in what is now known as the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast were the murders of Andrew & Abby Borden, and there were no murders that took place in the house being talked about in this article... This is the house that Lizzie Borden bought in 1894, following the murders of her parents, and where she lived until her death in 1927.
--- Phillip Brunelle
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Comment by Love Paranormal on May 1, 2012 at 2:43pm -
@NewBedfordParanormalSociety This article isn't about the history of the house where the murders happened, so why comment as if you're correcting the article when it's not stating facts of the other house?
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Comment by New Bedford Paranormal Society on May 1, 2012 at 2:02pm
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Actually the Lizzie Borden murders were not the first murders there 50 yrs before there was a family murdered there which I believe was done by the Father
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Comment by Love Paranormal on May 1, 2012 at 9:28am
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AGREED!!! I would LOVE to own this house, but would NEVER pay double the price its worth. If its taking so many years for this guy to sell the house, he should take a hint. Maybe the publicity hes getting now will help him to find a buyer, and maybe even the lady who owns the murder house and turned it into a bed and breakfast will buy this house and do the same with it, but I doubt he will get much more than what the house is valued at just because Lizzie Borden lived in the house, like Rachel and the writer of this article said, its not like its the murder house, so why does he think its worth double value?
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